Proper 10A, St. Alfred's
Proper 10 July 15/16, 2023 St. Alfred's Episcopal Church Teaching Revised Common Lectionary I offer you today a sermon on ears . Or rather using our ears to listen , to really hear . It may be that I am hypersensitive to having ears to hear. When I got my hearing aids in 2011, and I could hear the birds singing in the morning, my life shifted, it changed. It is a common criticism one hears ( particularly from various Protestant denominations ) that Episcopalians don't really take scripture seriously. As an illustration to argue against that perception, I put before you today's readings from the Bible . Since June 11th we've been hearing from the book of Genesis. In particular we have been hearing from the story of Abraham. Each week we have heard a small part of a much larger story. For a psalm today, we have heard one small part of a much larger psalm -- in fact the longest psalm among the 150 we have in the Bible. It focuses on praise and exaltation of the Torah...